political science

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evolution occurs


institutional template


2 Focus onrational institutionaldesign

2 ‘‘Punctuatedequilibrium’’ yetlittle emphasison post-formativeinstitutional change

2 Focus on theequilibrating effectsof institutionalizationand associatedlogics ofappropriateness

2 Focus bothon institutional creationand post-formativeinstitutional change3 Focus on the ideationalpreconditions ofinstitutional change

Key themes

Boundedrationality

Path dependence

Diffusion ofinstitutionaltemplates

Discursive constructionof crises; institutionalizationas the normalizationof policy paradigms

Weaknesses

Functionalist;static

Rather static

Rather static

Unclear about the origins ofboth interests and ofsystems of ideas; unclearabout the relative significanceof material and ideationalfactors

Common bias towards moments of institutional creation (focus on institutional

genesis but

not on subsequent development)
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